jake5270
Gift PremiumLaid-back, easy going guy until my passions are aroused. I've been here 3 other times... I keep trying to get it right, I guess. lol
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Monday, October 7, 2019, 2:12:23 AM- I am... | ||
... footballed out for one weekend. | ||
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Sunday, October 6, 2019, 12:23:31 AM- It goes both ways | ||
Always loved this song: There was a time when people had morals. One of the things you did in my day as a guy was to ask another guy who had broken up with his girlfriend if it was okay to ask her out. Long story short(er): When my gf and I had taken a break (way back in 197, part of the problem was deciding what to do because I had gotten her pregnant. I wanted to get married and she wasn't sure if she wanted to have the baby or not. A friend (?) I'd had for 12 years got her drunk and slept with her. This was a guy with a weasel reputation and I told her if she ever slept with him I'd never see her again. So she didn't tell me she was going to keep the baby and married the guy. Lot's and lots of pain... I lost 30 lbs. in a month and was pretty much drunk the whole time after I found out. Yes, I can see and share the anger of this song. Oh, yeah - I was never allowed to see the baby before they moved away. To Alaska. ~ | ||
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Friday, October 4, 2019, 6:47:24 PM- Start the weekend... | ||
... with a laugh: Keep smiling and laughing, no matter what occurs! | ||
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Thursday, October 3, 2019, 6:27:56 PM- Ideal | ||
Before I woke up this morning, I was having the best dream I've had in a long time. I had met the love of my life as a young man, someone I've never seen before. Our life unfolded in flashes as the years went by: Having a family, traveling, living in a huge old house. The last image I saw was of us as an old couple lying in bed, talking about how wonderful our life had been and how we would carry on our love in the next life. I woke up smiling today. I went to a dream-interpretation site for fun to see what someone might make of this dream. It said that my expectations were unrealistically romantic. At my age, living alone, I don't see a problem with that. In my opinion, if you stop dreaming you will wither and die. ~ | ||
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 7:03:15 PM- I wouldn't have believed it... | ||
... if I hadn't heard it with my own two ears. Overheard outside a conference room: Person #1. "Our productivity has fallen way off." Person #2. "We'll just have to keep having meetings until we figure it out, then." You know, people get paid to write this kind of comedy. | ||
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 7:16:01 PM- Attitudes | ||||||
50 years ago, when I was a teenager, it was the late 1960s. Adults then complained about our hair, our clothes, our music and our attitude. They also thought we watched too much t.v., so occasionally they would turn it off and make us do something else - preferably outdoors. Today I hear the same complaints from adults about the kids now. Video games and cell phones have replaced the t.v., that's all. Can today's adults turn off the distractions and make their kids do something else? Food for thought. ~ | ||||||
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Monday, September 30, 2019, 6:52:16 PM- I knew it! | ||
I like cats. I just happen to like dogs better. When I saw this commercial, I knew my case for why I don't have a cat had been made: Women tend to like cats more than men do. How many old men do you know of who have a house full of cats? Think about it. | ||
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Sunday, September 29, 2019, 11:41:42 PM- It just doesn't matter. | ||
If I say black, some people will say white. If you think someone is good looking, I might think they're ugly. It's all about personal perception. Such is life. How dull would the world be if everyone thought the same? Remember: Just because someone thinks differently from you does not make them wrong. For without different thinking and passion, life would be dreary without hope of change. ~ | ||
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Saturday, September 28, 2019, 8:05:02 PM- Update on older blog 'Sad' | ||
The security guard at work who had a heart attack at work. I found out that he had one at work and 4 more in the hospital. I had pretty much decided he was a goner, even though I did include him in my prayers. Well, guess what? Friday night, 11 days after the heart attack, he was back at work, walking his rounds! I was shocked when I saw him and the first words out of my mouth were: "What the HELL are you doing here?" So he told me... Yes, he had 5 minor heart attacks, caused by the valves closing in his heart. The doctor put a stint (whatever that is) in one valve, sent him home and after a week o.k.ed him to return to work! He looked and acted fine, healthy even. I've seen other people after big heart attacks and they usually look like death warmed over, pun intended. This guy looked fit and happy. Later, on my last break, I went outside and thought about what I had experienced. To say the least, medicine has come a long way in the last 50 or so years. And no matter what some people might say, I beleive in the power of prayer. In my mind, I think I have been able to see a miracle. Happily, Life goes on. | ||
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Friday, September 27, 2019, 6:49:32 PM- If | ||
If you don't like your looks, change 'em. Women can have a makeover. Guys can grow hair on their face, or shave it off. No hair? No problem! Buy a wig or toupee. Have hair and don't like it? Change the style. Change the color. Shave it off or grow it long. Don't like your clothes? Give 'em to Goodwill and buy new ones. You might even find something you like at Goodwill. Cheap! Don't like your lifestyle? Take up yoga, or meditation, or just change your 'crowd'. Don't like your car? Get a different one. Don't like where you live? Move! Don't like yourself? Look inside yourself and see what you need to do to be a better person, but... DON'T blame other people or your surroundings. It's all you and you can change that. ~ | ||
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